Rousseau vs. Feminism
Professor Kozlowski pits Rousseau's dubious pedagogical advice against the clear-sighted feminism of Mary Wollstonecroft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in this last examination of love in The ...
23 Syys 20211h 43min
Spinoza, Kant, and the Enlightenment
Continuing through history, Professor Kozlowski discusses excerpts of Spinoza's Ethics, briefly recounts the intellectual history leading up to The Enlightenment (including its greatest accomplishment...
22 Syys 20211h 41min
Montaigne and the Renaissance
Professor Kozlowski discusses the rapidly-changing world of Modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Protestant Reformation to the Scientific Revolution, in order to contextualize and understand the...
22 Syys 20211h 44min
Dante and Beatrice
Professor Kozlowski takes a break from philosophy proper to discuss the Love of the poets and artists of the late medieval and early modern era, focusing primarily on the romance of Dante and Beatrice...
18 Syys 20211h 37min
Aquinas - Friendship is Charity
Professor Kozlowski goes for a (relatively) brief walk through the woolly area of Thomist philosophy: examining how Aquinas distinguishes between concupiscent and friendly love and how friendly love i...
18 Syys 20211h 14min
Islam and Courtly Love
Professor Kozlowski commits a hat-trick of irresponsible academic conjecture by (1) wading deep into a contentious discussion that (2) he is woefully under-informed about, and (3) which involves a cul...
15 Syys 20211h 41min
Augustine and the Evolution of Christianity
Professor Kozlowski largely abandons today's reading from Augustine's Confessions in order to embark on a brief history of the early Christian church, tracking its evolution from a guerrilla religion ...
15 Syys 20211h 44min
Christianity - God is Love
It's time to talk about Christianity, and how it radically changed Western Culture's understanding of Love. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlo...
8 Syys 20211h 51min
